I read a bumper sticker a couple of years ago, a day after I had had a close miss, I was driving along a dark tree lined road on my way back to
Namibia from South Africa as the sun was setting, it was raining and I didn't know the road very well. Driving faster than the limit I hit a pool of
water on the road and my car started planing, I had no control over it, suddenly I could make out a curve in the road and knew that I wasn't going to
be able to make it. Somehow the car started slowing and I ended up on the verge about a metre away from a deep ditch! I sat for a while calming myself
down and then continued on home.
The following day driving into a parkade I saw a parked van with bumper sticker on it that read

We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At
last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own.

Space, Time and Gravitation (1920)

Arthur Stanley Eddington (28 December 1882 – 22 November 1944) was Plumian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge

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